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If a farmer and his family can get up at 5:30 every morning to milk cows, surly we can get up at that time to practice basketball.

Don Meyer

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Don Meyer
Age: 69 †
Born: 1944
Born: December 16
Died: 2014
Died: May 18
Basketball Coach
Wayne
Nebraska
Donald Wayne Meyer
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Family
Surly
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Milk
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I tell everyone that I have 25,000 assistant coaches. If I want to know something, I just go to the grocery store.'
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Shared suffering makes a team a team.
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Discover your gift, develop your gift and then give it away every day.
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Discipline and demand without being demeaning.
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Go from good to great because good is the enemy of great.
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Successful programs consist of people working hard, working together, while never worrying about who gets the credit.
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